Hello:
I am testing out VMware PowerCLI 6.5 Release 1 on a new server
Everything seems to be working out except for one cmdlet that we are using in our scripts.
I understand that The Get-remotesession cmdlet was present in the old View module (and only works with powershell 2.0) and on the CS server only.
My question is there any similar cmdlet in 6.5.1?
Our current scripts queries the duration of a remote session.
PS C:\Users\administrator.VLAB> Get-RemoteSession
session : 0
Username : xxxx
pool_id : xxxx
startTime : Thu Feb 15 08:12:15 PST 2018
session_id : xxxx
DNSName : xxxx
duration : 22 minutes
lastSessionTicks : -1223468
state : CONNECTED
protocol : BLAST
BTW, is there page that has a list of arguments that you can pass the VMware.HV.Helper cmdlets?
Thanks,
Chris
Check out check_horizonview/check_horizonview_sessions.ps1 at master · tschubb/check_horizonview · GitHub
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Thanks.
I checked the script and the main cmdlet is Get-HVMachineSummary which works and gives a list of all sessions but I need more details specially on how long the machine has been connected.
Perhaps, I can rephrase my question, is there a way to get the the session duration of a connected machine?
That info is not readily available through any of the functions in the HVHelper module afaik.
But you can use the QueryService_Query to get to the SessionGlobalSummaryView which contains the SessionData object with that info.
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Thanks,
SessionData looks promising, it does not have the session duration but it does have startTime
I'll check this out
By the way, is there a man page for all the new VMware.HV
I'm very new to this and wondered which parameters or arguments that I can pass the cmdlets
Best,
Chris
There aren't many cmdlets available for Horizon as you will soon discover.
Most of the functionality is offered through the VMware.Hv.Helper module, which is open sourced.
In there you'll find many examples of how to use the Horizon View Services
Ray did a great intro in Quick Guide to the Horizon 7 API with VMware PowerCLI
And then there is Wouter's website with quite some interesting scripts and snippets.
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+ just ask me and I will see if I or someone else can add the cmdlet
Hi Magneet:
If someone can create the cmdlet. That would be great.
Thank you so much,
Chris
check the github, it has get-hvlocalsession and get-hvglobalsession since some weeks
Hi Magneet:
we are finally getting done with the semester, so now I can work on this again.
It tried get-hvglobalsession but not sure how to use it. Do I have to pass any variables to it?
Thanks,
Chris
Hi LuCD:
We are finally getting done with the semester, so now I can work on this again.
I get the sessionData but I need to correlate it to a VDI and a user.
Any thoughts?
This is the output.
PS C:\> $Sessions.Results.SessionData
SessionType : DESKTOP
SessionProtocol : PCOIP
SessionState : CONNECTED
StartTime : 4/24/2018 9:33:23 PM
DisconnectTime :
LastSessionDurationMS : 91477
BrokeredRemotely : False
ResourcedRemotely : False
Unauthenticated :
Thanks,
Chris
that's only the sessiondata you are looking at, you will need to use the id's from the referencedata to get the actual user desktop and machine information. Use those id's against get-hvinternalname to get the names
Thanks Magneet:
I got lost googling about the reference data. (Sorry I am really new to this).
Any suggestions on where to read up on it?
By the way, about get-hvglobalsession? I am not sure how to use it. Do I have to pass any variables to it?
Thanks again for all your help.
Chris
nope, currently it doesn't accept any variables it just finds all sessions within a cpa for you. If you don't have a cpa or only want sessions from the pod you are connected to you need to use get-hvlocalsession
Hi Magneet:
Sorry, I am really lost on this.
PS C:\Users\admin> get-hvlocalsession
Id NamesData ReferenceData SessionData
-- --------- ------------- -----------
VMware.Hv.SessionId VMware.Hv.SessionNamesData VMware.Hv.SessionLocalReferenceData VMware.Hv.SessionData
VMware.Hv.SessionId VMware.Hv.SessionNamesData VMware.Hv.SessionLocalReferenceData VMware.Hv.SessionData
VMware.Hv.SessionId VMware.Hv.SessionNamesData VMware.Hv.SessionLocalReferenceData VMware.Hv.SessionData
is there a quick tutorial on using vmware.Hv?
Thanks,
Chris
hmmz I thought I had blogged about it, will put something together for you but essentially you can do this (get-hvglobalsession).namesdata and so on to get the information or better do $sessions=get-hvglobalsession and then $sessions.namesdata and so on.
can you do something with this? https://www.retouw.nl/powercli/pulling-horizon-session-information-using-powercli/
Hi Magneet:
Thanks. I think i got it, using the NamesData and the SessionsData.
Thanks again,
Chris